association with WUT," after 2012. The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) believed Lieber's statements regarding the matter to be false. During his arraignment, authorities executed search warrants at his home and office in Lexington, Massachusetts. At that time he was placed on paid administrative leave by Harvard. On June 9, 2020, the DOJ alleged that, beginning in 2011 and unbeknownst to Harvard, Lieber became a "Strategic Scientist" at Wuhan University of Technology (WUT) in China. And that he was a contractual participant in China's Thousand Talents Plan from at least 2012 through 2015. A month later Lieber was charged with four counts of violating tax laws by failing to report income he allegedly received from China. Critics expressed worry that Lieber's arrest could amount to McCarthyism, as a part of rising tension with China amid the China–United States trade war, beginning during the Trump administration. Dr. Ross McKinney Jr., chief scientific officer of the Association of American Medical Colleges, claimed there is increasing anxiety among his colleagues that scientists will be scrutinized over legitimate sources of international funding, "...slowly but surely, we're going to have something of a McCarthyish purity testing". In March 2021, several dozen scientists, including seven Nobel Prize winners, published an open letter in support of Lieber, arguing that his prosecution by the government was "unjust" and "misguided" and "discouraging US scientists from collaborating with peers in other countries". In the spring of 2021, Lieber requested that his trial be expedited because he was suffering from lymphoma. Lieber's trial opened on December 14, 2021, in Boston with jury selection. He pleaded not guilty to all six felony charges. On December 21, 2021, Lieber was found guilty on two counts of making false statements to the U.S. government, two counts of filing a false income tax return, and two counts of failing to report foreign bank accounts. In a taped interview, Lieber admitted traveling from Wuhan to Boston with bags of cash containing between $50,000 and $100,000, which he said he never disclosed to the IRS. He faces up to 26 years in prison and $1.2 million in fines. He will be sentenced in March 2023. Awards Feynman Prize in Nanotechnology (2001) NBIC Research Excellence Award in Nanotechnology, University of Pennsylvania (2007) Wolf Prize in Chemistry (2012) IEEE Nanotechnology Pioneer Award (2013) Remsen Award (2016) Welch Award in Chemistry (2019) Other honors and positions Lieber is a member